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Friend's View: 'The work is accomplished due to the cause,
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It becomes the means of the ocean of liberation. Just as the Chakera naturally loves the moon, just as the bee naturally goes to the Malati, so too, the noble-worthy, eligible being, by natural virtue, attains the excellent opportunity.
“The addiction arises like the ocean, in relation to the moon's light;
The Kumud follows the unattached, by pure nature....it will be”—Shri Yashovijayji “In the company of the excellent, excellence increases, along with joy, O Anangi”—Shri Devchandraji
And why does this excellent opportunity arise? That too is explained here. This opportunity is obtained by the arising of three obstacles. This obstacle is a special type of yoga. Its form is now being told. This obstacle-like cause is called Yaga, and the opportunity that is like it is called Yaga.
Opportunity and Material Cause
66 The work is accomplished due to the cause, there is no argument in that;
But to accomplish the work without a cause, that is the madness of one's own opinion, O Sabhava”—Shri Anandghanji “The work is accomplished with the cause, this is the eternal path....Lalana
Having obtained the position of Devchandra, one should maintain one's own feelings....Lalana”—Shri Devchandraji
Work does not happen without a cause, this is the eternal rule, but those who talk about accomplishing work without a cause, are only the madness of their own opinion. Yet, some people, due to their misunderstanding, do not have the awareness of the proper division and relationship of the material cause and opportunity, or due to their ingrained misleading ideas, understand it upside down, and grasping the one-sided view, consider the material cause and opportunity as if they were opponents, rivals of each other, and by such meaningless, dry knowledge, they keep on denigrating the highly beneficial opportunity, saying only 'material cause, material cause', which, in the words of Shri Anandghanji, is 'the madness of one's own opinion'. Because, to insist on the material cause alone or the opportunity alone, is only a manifestation of delusion, a reversal. Those who grasp such a one-sided view, do not know the fully interdependent, mutually supportive relationship of the material cause and opportunity, and by creating a one-sided, false, untrue, misleading statement, they destroy the eternal beliefs of the knowers. Because, just as nothing is gained by grasping the opportunity alone, ignoring the material cause, so too, nothing is gained by grasping the material cause alone, ignoring the opportunity.
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